Two female employees at the Ohio nightclub where Stormy Daniels was arrested during the summer sued police vice officers Tuesday, claiming they were used as cover for the porn star’s politically motivated arrest.

A Michigan man jailed for two years for attempted murder and later exonerated because of a Facebook-backed alibi prevailed Wednesday in a civil case against Detroit police officers who had asked a judge not to find them liable for falsely arresting him.

A Philadelphia Eagles fan accused of punching a police horse and a mounted officer before the Eagles’ NFC championship victory is suing the team and police, claiming he didn’t strike the horse and he was beaten for no reason.

Rapper Obie Trice, known for his work with Eminem and Dr. Dre, sued Marriott on Thursday, claiming he was racially profiled, attacked and detained by hotel security guards after being badgered about whether he was staying in the Detroit hotel.

An elderly Texas man claims he was assaulted and detained by officers at a Veterans Affairs hospital after being asked to empty his pockets before going through a metal detector and then responding to a request for identification by calmly explaining his ID was in the inspection bin.

A California man who went to a small South Texas town to visit a woman he’d met on Facebook claims he was detained for no reason by the town’s police chief, who put him on a bus back to California after telling him, “You are not welcome here, you gotta go.”

A Tennessee woman who visited Virginia on a business trip claims in court that her hotel stay unnecessarily ended in handcuffs and a brief stint in jail after a misunderstanding with managers about her reservation.

A woman who was helping her sister in an apartment dispute claims in a $50 million lawsuit that police near Austin, Texas, falsely arrested her, subjected her to a brutal sexual assault and forced sedation, and denied her a rape test and bail.

Protesters arrested after blocking traffic on a highway that runs through downtown Baltimore last year during an arts festival filed a class-action lawsuit claiming they were detained on bogus charges and subjected to atrocious conditions.

A man who highlighted long-standing flaws in California’s warrants system after law enforcement arrested him on a warrant meant for someone else has settled his civil rights case against the County of San Bernardino and the City of Colton.

A federal judge has tossed a four-year-old case accusing officials of a Northern California county of falsely arresting a mother on kidnapping charges and putting her twin girls in foster care after she refused to give them back to her ex-husband during a bitter custody dispute.

A class of motorists claims a police unit operated by an Illinois county state’s attorney’s office, independent from the county’s regular police force, had no authority to make traffic stops or drug arrests.

An Illinois man claims his life was ruined by Chicago police when officers, despite having no evidence he was guilty, charged him with a felony while he was a high school student with a full-ride scholarship to Cal-Berkeley.

Border Patrol agents ignored the tearful pleas and protected status of a single mother and forced her to return to Mexico, leaving her three children alone at their South Texas home, the mother says in a federal lawsuit.